Marcia DeSanctis has written for Vogue, Departures, Travel + Leisure, The New York Times, Town & Country and numerous other publications. She is the author of a New York Times bestselling book about France, and has won five Lowell Thomas awards for travel journalism. Formerly, she was a producer at CBS, NBC and ABC News, where she worked for Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters. A graduate of Princeton University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, she lives in rural New England.